Good morning! Happy Tuesday. Back to work after my long weekend. 🏢

Back to work after a long weekend up north. Unpacked my camping gear and coolers this morning after staying over night at my parents house.

Mostly cloudy, humid and 74 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☔ There is a south breeze at 14 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 60 degrees. The skies will clear around 7 pm.

Could be a stormy day today ⛈ so I guess it best to retreat to my climate controlled office. If anything, I would have been better off had I taken Friday off. But things are remarkably busy at work these days although I’ve busy closing out as much as I can out of the production book 📙. I already have work emails 📧 to address when I get into the office 🏢.

It was a nice weekend up north for the most part. 🏖 ⛺ Spent it up number 5 on Powley Road, with a lot of time reading 📖 and floating and swimming at the Potholers ⭕, listening to hours and hours of podcasts. Did some walking 🚶along Powley Road and at least to start out the weekend 🍻 some drinking. That said, alcohol isn’t nearly as much fun pushing forty as it was in my younger years. I probably should have done more to try to get my steps in during the weekend, and maybe brought my kayak 🛶 but I had fun floating on the tube, well until it sprung a leak after catching a tree branch. It’s a small leak, although I will need to run to store and get some rubber cement to fix it.

Friday night I got up north remarkably early, 🕓 as traffic heading out of the city was very light and I caught the 12 bus up to my truck fairly quickly. I was pretty fried after the week that was 😫 so I probably wasn’t particularly light on the accelerator on NY 29 or Emmonsburg Road, and got to campsite 5 fairly early. Disappointed but not surprised I didn’t get House Pond, but I did get set up early. And started drinking. And left the window open in my truck overnight with the coolers. 🐻 Fortunately, no bears decided to climb into the cab of my truck and trash the inside of my truck.

Saturday I spent a lot of the day reading, 📖 then floating above the potholers. Sunday was much the same although I also did a nice walk 🚶‍♀️ along Piseco-Powley Road to that other swimming hole I “discovered’ three weeks ago. 🏊‍♀️ Monday I drove straight out to my parents house 🏘 via the farm country of NY 10 Canajoharie, 🚜 then over NY 162 🌽 down to NY 30A to NY 443. 🍓 Nice country, although on NY 443 I got stuck behind the slowest moving car ever, and there ain’t a lot of places to pass along there.